His somebody can answer me, as I'm working on this issue since march 25 and did not resovle it still. Of course I'm a newbies but I don't give up I learn a lot but not enough to make it work as I wish.

I can run IECapt.exe not problem from the DOS command:

C:\>iecapt.exe http://www.pepsi.com mypepsiImage.png

and all is OK, file is saved in the same dir used by IECapt.exe (image_thumbnail)

Now I have tried to use IECapt via a web page. Here my last steps;

1) in the htdocs(Apache) I create a form.php2) from this form.php I call (with include command) another php page; execute.php located in IECapt folder = image_thumbnail3) in this execute.php I'm putting the following script(this only line of command) just for testing:

but nothing is working. DOS window appear half a second and dissapear...

What am I doing wrong ?I want a user from my web page to capture a thumnail and save images to my server.Please can you help me and provide me brieftly(as I don't want to anoye you) the steps to follow properly, I did try everything since... mmmmmm..... !!!

prior to what I did above (from a form.php located in htdocs), I tried the following by inserting an image_type value = 3 to start the webthumb.php as a default hiden value (don't want the user to select any selection box) I want png by defaut... and of course I put an URL text box ;

I did look into all my file and IECapt...and this was duplicated in a directory above htdocs..think that was one of the problem because when I cleaned it, my form was able to open DOS for half a second and than closed. with your script provided to me;

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<?php$arr = array();exec('IECapt.exe http://www.cisco.com cisco.png', $arr);echo "<pre>"; print_r($arr);?>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------looked after several minute to see if cisco.png existed but nothing in my PC at all.

than, I executed: this form.php; (I think that my problem is here: (check the arrow below <----???)); so what I'm trying to do, it is to have a text box to send the URL + png format (per default) sent to: webthumb.php

I'm having exactly the same problem. I'm guessing the fault is in my hosting set up rather than in the thumbnail generator. Is there a simple way I can check if I have permission to run exe files? I dont get any php errors or server errors, just the 'Thumbnail Generation Error. Thumbnail not created' one.